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Please join us in congratulating the 2023 Cal Poly Journalism and Mustang Media Hall of Fame honorees, who will be inducted in a gala celebration on Friday evening hosted by Cal Poly Journalism alums and award-winning broadcast news journalists Kevin Riggs and Leah Pezzetti.
Chief of strategic communications, California High Speed Rail Authority
Former department chair and symposium namesake
Owner, Full Throttle Newsletter; Former ABC News correspondent
Vice president of news, ESPN
Owner, Looker Communications Consulting
Chief political reporter, KNBC and host of News Conference
President and Global COO, Sage Publishing
Chief operating officer, Vox Media
Click here to view the other members of the Cal Poly Journalism and Mustang Media Hall of Fame which is located on the second floor of Building 26 on the Cal Poly campus.
Hall of Fame Gala Emcees
Kevin Riggs
Kevin Riggs
Political analyst, KCRA-TV
Kevin Riggs recently retired from Randle Communications in Sacramento, where he served as senior vice president. Based on his 30-year broadcast career, Riggs directed media relations, strategic communications and business development initiatives for the firm’s political, business and trade association clients.
From 1994-2011, Riggs worked for KCRA-TV as a general assignment reporter, political reporter and anchor, where he covered the governor, legislature and political campaigns. Riggs provided regular political analysis for 10 years with weekly in-studio appearances and a political blog published on the station’s website.
Riggs earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. In October 2018, he was inducted into the Cal Poly Mustang Media Hall of Fame. He is married with two children and likes to travel and restore classic Ford Mustangs.
Read more about Kevin Riggs here.
Leah Pezzetti
Leah Pezzetti
Meteorologist/storyteller, KING 5 News
Leah Pezzetti is a meteorologist/storyteller for KING 5 Media Group in Seattle, WA.
Leah was born and raised in Sacramento and earned a master's degree in meteorology from Mississippi State after graduating from Cal Poly.
She has worked as a reporter in Bakersfield, Las Vegas and San Diego and has won four regional Emmy awards and been nominated 12 times. In her first year at ABC 10News in San Diego, Leah received an Emmy for 'Best Live Reporter,' after covering major breaking news events like the George Floyd protests and the Valley Fire.
Leah is a proud member of the National Press Photographer’s Association and attributes her passion for shooting and editing to the NPPA’s training which she participated in twice while at Cal Poly.
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